The Delhi government on Tuesday said it has started tracing passengers who arrived in the national capital from the United Kingdom since November 25, amid fears of the spread of a new and more infectious strain of Covid-19 that has been detected in the UK. The government has also started door-to-door tracking of passengers who returned from the UK.
The government had earlier decided to track and test all arrivals in Delhi from the UK over the past two weeks, an order that was tweaked late in the evening based on the central government’s guidelines.
All these arrivals will be tested using the gold standard reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method by district surveillance teams.
Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain told reporters that nearly 7,000 passengers flew into the city from the UK in the last two weeks.
